Nvidia Stands Up For Microsoft After UK Blocks Activision Merger

i guess, but cma probably see this as bad thing, since sony doesn't have their cloud gaming as strong as microsoft's xbox cloud gaming, some of the sony fans might go to other service that has it.

Nvidia stands to gain profit from it, so they're pro merger....

Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me. I'm pretty sure the U.K. read the fine print on the proposed deals regarding ABK titles on other platforms and smelt blood in the water regarding the lack of an actual revenue split with each of the platforms in question, with all of it going to Microsoft.

All they have to do is remove the single point of contention. Have Activision sell Call of Duty in all its iterations to Microsoft. They would not need such wide approve for that.

After that’s done, Activision could sell Blizzard to Microsoft in what would be seen as a much smaller deal. Then it is a done deal.

However, if they get approval for the sale through all other countries, they could just cease operations in the UK, unless they reverse their position.

The only way to beat this deal is that ABK and Microsoft should form a independent entity in the U.K. handle the U.K. operations for the ABK games, but they won't get gamepass. Or they can do this both ABK and Microsoft pull all operations away from the U.K. and let them be. With that the Politicians and CMA will have to deal their own problems when it comes why their gamers would become so angry when that happens.

This block is weird and all of the platforms and cloud platforms was gonna get cod and most of the ABK ips sometime in the future. It was like they didn't want to hear anything positive about this deal and just want to blocked it automatically.

As someone who doesn't really care about Activision's games (besides the older ones), this whole thing is hilarious to watch from the sidelines.

Seeing the console fanboys, rife with anxiety over the final ruling, going through emotional highs and lows every week, it's hilarious.

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